Top 100 Quotes About Sport Is
#1. The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.
Robert Redford
#3. This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular. Many of us will perish before then, but that prospect will not dismay the braver spirits ... It is so delicious to fly like a bird!
Marie Marvingt
#4. Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game ... about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.
Dean Smith
#5. I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.
Peyton Manning
#6. Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.
Donnie Burns
#8. Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.
Pele
#10. What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.
Sergei Bubka
#11. I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming.
Ray Lewis
#12. Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights.
Carl Froch
#13. Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.
Alexis Arguello
#14. Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.
Nelson Mandela
#15. Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered
Rick Reilly
#16. Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
Alice Dreger
#17. Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.
Nick Hornby
#18. We all had, at some point, matches we should have won and we didn't and that's the game. That's just the way the sport is. Otherwise, if everything was written before, we don't need to play.
Amelie Mauresmo
#20. If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.
Berti Vogts
#21. I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
#22. There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.
Lynn Davies
#23. Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with.
Joe Paterno
#24. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
George A. Sheehan
#26. The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.
Dick Vitale
#27. My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#28. The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!
Renzo Gracie
#29. I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
Boris Johnson
#30. The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery Brundage
#31. Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.
Earl Monroe
#32. Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma.
Charlie White
#33. You're only as good as your last fight. It's just the way things are. It's the way that the sport is built.
Andre Ward
#34. I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.
Andy Murray
#35. My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.
Diane Kruger
#36. My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd.
Anthony Jeselnik
#37. The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
Barry S. Strauss
#38. Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.
Roger Bannister
#40. Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don't be afraid to lose. Have fun while you're busy playing hard and playing smart.
Morgan Wootten
#41. The evolution of the sport is so fast, if you slow down for a second, you're past.
Chuck Liddell
#42. Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.
Seal
#43. Sometimes, sport is just plain pleasing to the eye, like watching La Belle France flit by on television during the Tour de France. I can do that for hours.
George Vecsey
#44. The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner who took up triathlons. Now, you have a generation of triathletes coming up that started competing at a young age - these are the people that will change the game.
Timothy O'Donnell
#45. To be a well-rounded person and know what's going on in the world around you, to have a perspective outside of your sport, is important for every athlete. I'm blessed that our parents gave us that.
Venus Williams
#46. The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds a moment to emerge in the game.
Timothy Shriver
#47. Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.
Richard Attias
#48. Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
Peter Ueberroth
#50. Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.
Frederick Lenz
#51. Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal
#52. When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim.
Dwyane Wade
#53. In my opinion, the power of the mind in sport is vital. If you can overpower those physical risks mentally, you can get your body round it physically. I've made my body do things because of my mind that it shouldn't have been able to do.
Tony McCoy
#54. My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.
Glen Cook
#55. It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
Ian Millar
#57. I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.
John Mackey
#58. Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.
Ann Coulter
#59. We've got to have a radical rethink of the way the sport is funded to help the young players develop.
John Higgins
#60. Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.
Johan Cruijff
#62. I really enjoy doing what I do. I enjoy seeing live sport performed at the highest level. What's wonderful about sport is that it involves everybody, everybody has an opinion.
Jill Douglas
#63. Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Bob Greene
#64. I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.
Cathy Freeman
#65. People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.
Wayne Gretzky
#66. Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.
Simon Jordan
#67. Boxing has always been a primarily urban pastime (whereas the defining suburban sport is auto-racing, in which the machine and its anonymous mechanics hold far greater importance than the driver). When white Americans left the cities, they left boxing as well.
A.J. Liebling
#68. A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.
Donovan Bailey
#70. A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.
Mike Krzyzewski
#71. The National Football League needs "a guardian, not a CEO" to deal with the fact that "the sport is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel.
Frank Deford
#72. In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown.
Cheech Marin
#73. As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb
#74. A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
Rahul Dravid
#75. Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
Richard Attias
#76. The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.
Thomas Menino
#77. The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.
Croft M. Pentz
#78. Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Pierre De Coubertin
#79. My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something (and often claiming to find it) where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.
Julie Burchill
#80. Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
Bernard Ingham
#81. Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.
John Howard
#82. The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
Ted Dexter
#83. The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Jean-Claude Killy
#84. If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.
Erich Fromm
#85. When you love to run and you train hard enough to really feel it, running is all about freedom. Also, I find that sharing the value of our sport is very important. When I think back on my life, it isn't the winning that I remember so much, it's the people who I met through running.
Doris Brown Heritage
#86. The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
Brian O'Driscoll
#87. I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.
Pete Rozelle
#88. Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
Troy Polamalu
#89. Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture.
J.G. Ballard
#90. The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
Andy Rooney
#91. The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.
Eddie Reese
#92. Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?
J.K. Rowling
#93. Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Pierre De Coubertin
#94. Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
Avery Brundage
#95. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young.
Susanna Kearsley
#96. Fact One: Races are won or lost in key moments. Fact Two: Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.
Chris McCormack
#97. Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
Nat Hentoff
#98. Several things can throw me into that space where I feel energetic and peaceful at the same moment - often things that force me to utilize all my senses. Sunshine does it for me. Music for sure, singing, and dancing. Conscious breathing. Nature. Silence. Meditation. Sport is a great one.
Richard Brancatisano
#99. The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.
Bud Selig
#100. For some sport is a hobby but for me it is a way to survive. It makes me calm, balanced and well-rested. Not tired but vice versa. I think sport balances off my work load.
Mikhail Prokhorov
